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Bookmark or Share- Mountain Meadows Massacre - WikipediaThe Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train.
- Killings and aftermath of the Mountain Meadows MassacreThe Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The attacks culminated on September 11, 1857, in the mass slaughter of the emigrant party by the Iron County district of the Utah Territorial Militia and some local Indians. Initially intended to be an Indian ...
- The Aftermath of Mountain Meadows - Smithsonian MagazineThe massacre, in 1857, was one of the most explosive episodes in the history of the American West—not only were 120 men, women and children killed, but the United States and the Church of Jesus...
- 120 emigrants murdered at the Mountain Meadows MassacreBut when the shooting stopped in Mountain Meadows, 120 men and women were dead. Only 18 small children were spared.
- The Story of Massacre – Mountain Meadows Monument FoundationOne of the largest civilian massacres in the history of our country occurred at Mountain Meadows, South of Cedar City, Utah on September 11, 1857. The victims of the massacre were 121 men, women, and children of a California-bound wagon train under the leadership of Captain Alexander Fancher and Captain John Twitty Baker.
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